Karl Popper: 29 books
The Myth of the Framework
In Defence of Science and Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.
Sir Karl discusses such issues...
by Karl Popper
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’
Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy...
Unended Quest
An Intellectual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century,...
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics
From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.
Quantum...
Realism and the Aim of Science
From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.
Realism...
The Lesson of this Century
With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
One of the century's greatest and most influential thinkers, Karl Popper reminds us that we must recognize our responsibilities in preserving the democratic system we enjoy: it is our actions which will create the world of tomorrow.
In these interviews with journalist Giancarlo Bosetti, Karl Popper...
The World of Parmenides
Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This unique collection of essays, published together for the first time, not only elucidates the complexity of ancient Greek thought, but also reveals Karl Popper's engagement with Presocratic philosophy and the enlightenment he experienced in his reading of Parmenides. As Karl Popper himself states...
by Karl Popper
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the Preface
All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This...
In Search of a Better World
Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course...
The Self and Its Brain
An Argument for Interactionism
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind;...
by Karl Popper
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'
A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist...
by Karl Popper
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well...
Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem
In Defence of Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Open Universe
An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.